Obviously different sets of people were involved, but it looks like about the same amount of effort went into drawing Central/Eastern Europe as it did making the game itself interesting and fun.
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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Crazy Boris
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Not only has Bowser kidnaped Mario, but it looks like he took most of the Caribbean too. And Tasmania.
I’m not even gonna say anything about the borders, I don’t know where to begin there
I was going to say New Zealand as well, but everyone knows that doesn't exist.
The mainstream media refuses to acknowledge the sudden and enormous upwards growth of Earth's major landmasses
Crazy Boris
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What do you mean sudden it’s always been like that. Why do you think the Phoenicians built those giant ladders all over the Mediterranean coast?
Assuming this is supposed to represent the majority religion...
Muslim Armenia, Croatia, Greece, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Mozambique.
Jewish Lebanon. Or Israeli Lebanon?
Christian Nigeria and Guinea.
Hindu Bhutan.
Independent Buddhist Hainan. Or is it part of Taiwan? Or Vietnam?
Senemauritania. Zambabwe. Kenuganda. South African Lesotho and Swaziland.
Submerged Belize. Probably used to fill in Lake Victoria.
(Why even have a separate colour for Taoism?)
1. Croatia and Bosnia seem to have changed religion. (Also while mainland Greece is shown as Muslim Crete is shown as Christian. Cyprus seems to be shown as Muslim, but can't be certain).
2. TBF the number of Christians and Muslims in Nigeria is really close. I recall the difference only being a percent some years ago and it is likely this map is from several years ago (and as you can see South Sudan and Kosovo do not exist in this map).
3. Christian Hokkaido is also a fun detail.
4. Actually Confucianism and Taoism seem to be the same color.
5. The caption says: "A map showing regions where Christianity and [other] principal religions in the world are common/widespread". At least that's my translation, here is what Google Translate gives: "A map showing regions where Christianity and major religions are prevalent in the world"
This is very clearly from a Turkish Religious Studies textbook. Very MEB (National Education Ministry) in style. Probably pre-Highschool rather than Highschool level.
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Actually that basemap does get used even more often (and several of them are scattered across the two threads already) it's just that those two were comparatively fast to find. That lack of Eastern Mediterranean, that oddly sticking out Kamchatka, Greenland being shoved onto North America, those three are obvious pointers when you notice that it's this map again
Heck, even the moving company I worked for some years ago uses it for its logo:
Admittedly the picture is somewhat small and America had been moved to the right (where we can be gracious that a former colleague currently blocks its view thus sparing us at least that sight) But as I mentioned, the Eastern Med (or rather the lack of it) and the weird Kamchatka are both visible.
Although admittedly when compared with the basemap this logo managed to forget even more islands (was probably too much of a hassle to stick them all on)
Ok, apart from the rather... rudimentary nature of this map... the thing that's puzzling me is - what the hell projection is that?!?! I know a lot of projections, and frankly that's a head-scratcher... 🤔
For me, it looks like some kind of azimutal projection, that is inexpertly rearranged to lock like a cylindrical one.
As good a guess as any
My 1st thought was that it was an interrupted projection, like Goode's, that someone rather crudely de-interrupted to fit into a rectangle Very late reply, but this is a map talking about stereotypes towards different regions (like those “Map Of The World According To Americans” thingies) so I’d wager that that map was deliberately badly drawn.
Also I think I had the same geography textbook as you did…
What the hell did they do to ethiopia!? Look what they did to Pakistan!
You think that's bad, check out Hungary.What the hell did they do to ethiopia!? Look what they did to Pakistan!